Miriad Benchmarks

mirbench

Although we do have the standard miriad benchmark, which you can run via the command

time $MIR/install/mir.bench
...
23.441u 2.364s 0:27.10 95.2%

where you will need to look at the user space CPu (23.44 sec in this case) and the elapsed time (27.10 sec in this case). Background and a compilation of older results can be found in BIMA memo #xx.

mirbench3

A more realistic CPU intensive test is a mosaiced clean. The test takes a 7 field BIMA and 16 field CARMA mosaic of NGC 4736 and cleans one channel to 10,000 components. You can obtain a tar file with a script to run the benchmark from our [1]] and run the benchmark, roughly as follows: